Why This Work Exists

Across many sectors, familiar approaches assume stable institutions, shared facts, and sufficient material security to support deliberation and reform. In many places, those conditions no longer hold.

As a result, people are asked to collaborate while:

• material stress is increasing,

• identities feel threatened,

• institutions speak in the language of care while eroding its conditions,

• and persuasion often backfires rather than builds trust.

Food For Us exists to meet that terrain honestly.

What Post-Partisan Practice Means Here

Post-partisan practice does not mean neutrality, depoliticization, or “unity.”

It means building capacity for cooperation without requiring shared ideology, while maintaining clear boundaries against domination, dehumanization, and extractive harm.

This work emphasizes:

• shared material stakes as anchors for collaboration

• discernment and triage, not universal bridge-building

• responsibility without innocence or purity

• cooperation under constraint, not ideal conditions

• accountability to life rather than allegiance to sides

The aim is not consensus, but the ability to act together where action is necessary and possible.

Who This Work Serves

Food For Us is oriented toward people already working inside complexity, including:

• those carrying decision-making responsibility within strained institutions

• funders, strategists, and conveners navigating polarization and legitimacy loss

• practitioners working on food, water, land, health, housing, or care

• facilitators encountering the limits of dialogue-only approaches

• communities seeking cooperation without collapsing difference

This work is for those willing to engage power, limits, and loss without retreat or moral performance.

How the Work Takes Shape

Food For Us supports this field of practice through:

• Learning & Capacity Building
  Courses, workshops, and talks that strengthen discernment, collaboration, and adaptive capacity.

• Strategy & Accompaniment
  Long-term thinking partnership with organizations navigating governance, transition, or cross-worldview work.

• Facilitation & Convening
  Structured spaces grounded in shared material reality rather than ideological debate.

• Writing & Public Scholarship
  Essays and frameworks that offer orientation when dominant narratives no longer explain lived reality.

About the Work’s Origins

Food For Us is founded by Nicole Negowetti, a practitioner-scholar whose work spans food law, policy, community organizing, and regenerative practice.

Her book, Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, 2026), explores food as a diagnostic lens for understanding ecological collapse, democratic strain, and the deeper stories shaping how societies organize care and responsibility.

Food For Us is one expression of that larger inquiry, focused on practice, orientation, and collaboration in real conditions.

An Orientation

This work offers orientation to notice what is being normalized, discern where cooperation is possible or harmful, and remain accountable to life when certainty is unavailable.

The field is emergent, the conditions are uneven, an no one holds the full map.

What exists is practice, relationship, and the willingness to learn together.

Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.